MarketAxess
Head of UI and UX Platform Engineering
MarketAxess, Long Island City, New York, United States, 11101
About Us
Do not wait to apply after reading this description a high application volume is expected for this opportunity.MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Join us and help Take Us There.
The RoleWe are seeking a hands-on Principal engineer/architect to lead our UI/UX platform team who has a passion and expertise for front-end technologies and React ecosystems. The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience architecting, building, and operating highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant trading systems across various technologies. You care about the Platform’s business processes, data, application, and technical architecture components, which are Hybrid Cloud in our data centers and Public Cloud providers (e.g., AWS). As a full-stack engineer, you are excited to work with a tech stack that spans React, Typescript, Node, GraphQL, Kafka, Mongo Atlas, and more.
You should be passionate about technology, architecture, software engineering, data, quality, and innovatively addressing business problems. You will work with the team to collaborate on software solutions and architecture and ensure exceptional software engineering practices, quality, and good documentation. It’s essential to be willing to take on new skills to meet the shifting demands of accelerating our modernization efforts to the public cloud and Kubernetes world.
Feedback from your users should be something that you look forward to, as you will work closely with the Product and Engineering team users to incorporate their needs into the teams roadmap and use it as a measure of success using OKR’s. A critical success factor is being viewed as a trusted partner and collaborator, including business and technology stakeholders.
We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving to encourage all team members to focus on continuous improvement and learning.
How You’ll Help Take Us TherePartner with product and engineering leadership on the creation of roadmaps and building out the UI platform that serves as the foundation of all MKTX UI Apps.Collaborate with Platform Leadership to build out a standardized development pipeline across the firm.Define and implement a wide range of visual and non-visual Platform Components, including Design System, widgets, Auth, Persistence, Observability, ViewServer, Microfrontend architecture.Provide technical vision, drive strategy around solutions, solve complex problems, and act as the technical owner across strategic efforts involving the UI/UX platform, Cloud, streaming, machine-learning, and more.Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, resilient, scalable patterns.Provide regular Knowledge Sharing Sessions to UI Teams, manage training materials and oversee internal Tech Community channels.Establish new standards and best practices – promote Open Source development practices.Evaluate innovative technologies and participate in decision-making while aligning with our reference architectures.Ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards and strategy.Evaluate and recommend technology and frameworks for flexibility, long-term viability, and time to market.Promote and implement modern, container-based end-to-end development workflows.Collaborate with department architects to see opportunities to refactor business processes and improve customer experience.Help to build a high-performance team through staff development, recruiting, and retention.Mentor software engineers on the team, and through code reviews, ensure that all work meets team and industry standards.Communicate company and departmental vision, expectations, goals, and deadlines, and motivate your team through inspirational leadership.
UX DesignLeading design strategy and vision for MarketAxess products.Overseeing the design process from concept to implementation.Developing scalable design systems that enable consistent, high-quality experiences.Championing user-centered design principles.Staying at the forefront of design trends and emerging technologies.Mentoring and developing a diverse team of designers.Presenting design solutions to executive leadership.
What We’re Looking For12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with 5+ in an architecture and team leadership role.7+ years’ experience working in an agile environment.5+ years of experience in UX design, interaction design.Must have E-trading and financial services industry experience.Prior experience leading a global team.Strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions.Advanced technical expertise in software development with Java, web application technologies, cloud-native application architecture, API and microservices architecture, streaming and event processing architectures, and more.Ability to articulate and document architectural decisions and roadmaps at a senior executive level.Proven ability to build and maintain effective partnerships with product managers, architects, and technical leads.Strong presentation skills; written and verbal communication.BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
What You Can Expect From UsHybrid Environment: A mix of working in the office and from home.Free Food: Free lunch for employees in the office and stocked snacks.Paid Time Off: Competitive PTO package.Generous Parental Leave: Up to 20 weeks fully paid leave.401(k): Dollar-for-dollar employer match up to $17,500.Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Purchase MarketAxess common stock at a discount.Wellness Stipend: Up to $1K annually towards wellness.Onsite Healthcare: Access to world-class care through Mount Sinai.Tuition Assistance and Professional Development.Core benefits: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs.
For job positions in NYC, NY, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $250,000 USD to $300,000 USD.MarketAxess Corporation provides equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of legally protected characteristics.All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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Do not wait to apply after reading this description a high application volume is expected for this opportunity.MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Join us and help Take Us There.
The RoleWe are seeking a hands-on Principal engineer/architect to lead our UI/UX platform team who has a passion and expertise for front-end technologies and React ecosystems. The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience architecting, building, and operating highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant trading systems across various technologies. You care about the Platform’s business processes, data, application, and technical architecture components, which are Hybrid Cloud in our data centers and Public Cloud providers (e.g., AWS). As a full-stack engineer, you are excited to work with a tech stack that spans React, Typescript, Node, GraphQL, Kafka, Mongo Atlas, and more.
You should be passionate about technology, architecture, software engineering, data, quality, and innovatively addressing business problems. You will work with the team to collaborate on software solutions and architecture and ensure exceptional software engineering practices, quality, and good documentation. It’s essential to be willing to take on new skills to meet the shifting demands of accelerating our modernization efforts to the public cloud and Kubernetes world.
Feedback from your users should be something that you look forward to, as you will work closely with the Product and Engineering team users to incorporate their needs into the teams roadmap and use it as a measure of success using OKR’s. A critical success factor is being viewed as a trusted partner and collaborator, including business and technology stakeholders.
We embrace a culture of collaboration and experimentation while striving to encourage all team members to focus on continuous improvement and learning.
How You’ll Help Take Us TherePartner with product and engineering leadership on the creation of roadmaps and building out the UI platform that serves as the foundation of all MKTX UI Apps.Collaborate with Platform Leadership to build out a standardized development pipeline across the firm.Define and implement a wide range of visual and non-visual Platform Components, including Design System, widgets, Auth, Persistence, Observability, ViewServer, Microfrontend architecture.Provide technical vision, drive strategy around solutions, solve complex problems, and act as the technical owner across strategic efforts involving the UI/UX platform, Cloud, streaming, machine-learning, and more.Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, resilient, scalable patterns.Provide regular Knowledge Sharing Sessions to UI Teams, manage training materials and oversee internal Tech Community channels.Establish new standards and best practices – promote Open Source development practices.Evaluate innovative technologies and participate in decision-making while aligning with our reference architectures.Ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards and strategy.Evaluate and recommend technology and frameworks for flexibility, long-term viability, and time to market.Promote and implement modern, container-based end-to-end development workflows.Collaborate with department architects to see opportunities to refactor business processes and improve customer experience.Help to build a high-performance team through staff development, recruiting, and retention.Mentor software engineers on the team, and through code reviews, ensure that all work meets team and industry standards.Communicate company and departmental vision, expectations, goals, and deadlines, and motivate your team through inspirational leadership.
UX DesignLeading design strategy and vision for MarketAxess products.Overseeing the design process from concept to implementation.Developing scalable design systems that enable consistent, high-quality experiences.Championing user-centered design principles.Staying at the forefront of design trends and emerging technologies.Mentoring and developing a diverse team of designers.Presenting design solutions to executive leadership.
What We’re Looking For12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with 5+ in an architecture and team leadership role.7+ years’ experience working in an agile environment.5+ years of experience in UX design, interaction design.Must have E-trading and financial services industry experience.Prior experience leading a global team.Strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions.Advanced technical expertise in software development with Java, web application technologies, cloud-native application architecture, API and microservices architecture, streaming and event processing architectures, and more.Ability to articulate and document architectural decisions and roadmaps at a senior executive level.Proven ability to build and maintain effective partnerships with product managers, architects, and technical leads.Strong presentation skills; written and verbal communication.BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
What You Can Expect From UsHybrid Environment: A mix of working in the office and from home.Free Food: Free lunch for employees in the office and stocked snacks.Paid Time Off: Competitive PTO package.Generous Parental Leave: Up to 20 weeks fully paid leave.401(k): Dollar-for-dollar employer match up to $17,500.Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Purchase MarketAxess common stock at a discount.Wellness Stipend: Up to $1K annually towards wellness.Onsite Healthcare: Access to world-class care through Mount Sinai.Tuition Assistance and Professional Development.Core benefits: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs.
For job positions in NYC, NY, the estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $250,000 USD to $300,000 USD.MarketAxess Corporation provides equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of legally protected characteristics.All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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